US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 12 for "Systems and methods for multi-elevation foot traffic scanning" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,959, issued on May 12, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Systems and methods for multi-elevation foot traffic scanning" was invented by Hideki Hada (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for obtaining characterizations of paths to be traversed, such as foot paths. A scanning tool may be configured to capture information or data characterizing aspects of such a path. The scanning tool may comprise multiple sensors for capturing image/visual data from multiple perspectives, as well as for capturin...